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CH2 Community Mapping
Thursday Jan 28, 16:00 UK = 17:00 CET
Convenors: James Morley (A Street Near You), Valeria Vitale (British Library)
YouTube link: https://youtu.be/D3iToLMlNy8
Slides: tbs
In this seminar we will introduce the role that place information plays in cultural heritage, both as a means of engagement for the audience and as an aggregator of heterogeneous resources for cultural institutions. We will look, in particular, at how place is strongly connected with memory and identity, and how this bond can be used to make citizens feel like stakeholders in their own cultural heritage. We will discuss the concepts of citizen science and community mapping, looking at examples from Historic England, Layers of London, and GB1900. We will focus on a case study: the map-based web application A Street Near You developed by James Morley for the Imperial War Museum around open WWI data. Last, in the exercise, we will invite the students to create a new thematic "layer" in the Layers of London platform.
- (Two open access titles will be chosen from the list below. Please add suggestions below, not here.)
- Federica Burini. 2012. “Community Mapping for Intercultural Dialogue.” _ EspacesTemps_. Available: https://aisberg.unibg.it/retrieve/handle/10446/25904/4904/Community%20Mapping%20for%20Intercultural%20Dialogue..pdf
- Randa El Khatib. 2019. "Laying the Foundation for Community-Driven, Open Cultural Gazetteers." KULA: knowledge creation, dissemination, and preservation studies 3.1, pp. 21–. Available: https://kula.uvic.ca/index.php/kula/article/view/77
- L. Hammond & S. El Rashidi. 2018. “'Layers of London' - A Rich Geographical Palimpsest.” Geography 103.1, 42–45. Available: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10051491/1/GEOGRAPHY_vol103_part1_HAMMOND_EL_RASHIDI.pdf
- James Morley. 2018. “My ‘viral’ moment – A Street Near You & the power of linking First World War data sources. Blog post. Available: http://www.catchingtherain.com/2018/12/my-viral-moment-a-street-near-you-the-power-of-linking-first-world-war-data-sources/
- James Morley. 2020. “A Street Near you – a case study in linking disparate datasets.” Blog post. Available: http://www.catchingtherain.com/2020/06/a-street-near-you-a-case-study-in-linking-disparate-datasets/
- Digital NZ
- GB1900
- Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus
- Heritage Gazetteer of Libya
- Historic England – Help Write History
- Layers of London
- A Street Near You
- tba
(If you have any technical problems with this exercise, you may ask for help in this forum thread)